CURRICULUM VITAE ALICE M. COLBY-HALL

CURRICULUM VITAE
ALICE M. COLBY-HALL
June 15, 2015
Education:
BA, summa cum laude, Colby College, 1953
MA, Middlebury College (Paris Program), 1954
PhD, Columbia University, 1962
Positions held: Teacher of French and Latin, Orono High School, Orono, ME, 1954-55
Teacher of French, Gould Academy, Bethel, ME, 1955-57
Lecturer in French, Columbia University, 1959-60
Instructor in Romance Literature, Cornell University, 1962-63
Assistant Professor of Romance Literature, Cornell University, 1963-66
Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell University, 1966-75
Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell University, 1975-97
Professor of Romance Studies, Emerita, Cornell University, 1997-
Service to Cornell University:
1. Administrative work:
Director of the Medieval Studies Program, 1967-69, 1970-72
Director of Graduate Studies, Field of Romance Studies, Jan., 1974-Oct., 1976, 1981-84, Fall, 1986, Spring, 1988
Director of Honors Program in French, 1987-88
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Italian, Spring, 1993
Chair, Department of Romance Studies, 1990-91, 1992-96
2. Member of the Cornell University Senate, 1972-73
3. Undergraduate advising:
Adviser to French majors, 1963-67
Underclass COSEP advising, 1971-73
Underclass advising, 1978-81, 1984-90
4. Committees:
(a) Dept. of Romance Studies:
Italian Evaluation Committee, Chair, Spring, 1972
Italian Search Committee, 1983-87, Chair, 1994-95
French Search Committee, 1986-88, 1989-90
French Prize Committee Chair, 1987, 1990, 1993
Lecture Committee Chair, 1987-88
French Lecture Committee Chair, 1994-95
Spanish Search Committee Chair, 1994-95
(b) Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics:
French Search Committee, 1994-95
(c) College of Arts and Sciences:
Executive Committee of the Society for the Humanities, 1975-77
Dean’s Advisory Committee on Appointments, 1976-79
Hull Fund Publication Committee, 1978-82
Humanities Council, 1979-82
(d) Graduate School:
Fellowship Board, Humanities Area Committee, 1970-75, 1978-82, Chair1970-71, 1978-82
Graduate Dean Search Committee, Spring, 1973
General Committee of the Graduate School, 1973-77
(e) Senate:
Subcommittee on Religious Affairs, Chair, 1972-73
(f) University:
Task Force on Student Academic Support Services, 1974-75
Campus Fulbright Evaluation Committee, 1983
Olin Library Users Committee, 1989-90
University Appeals Panel, 1999-2004
(g) CAPE Council, 1997-2000, 2015
5. Cornell Research Club, President, 1974-75
6. Secretary of the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1998-2001
Society memberships:
Honorary societies:
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Sigma Iota
Delta Phi Alpha
Professional societies:
Académie de Vaucluse
Les Amis d’Orange
Association Internationale d’Études Occitanes
International Arthurian Society
Medieval Academy of America
Modern Language Association of America
Société Guilhem IX
Société Rencesvals
Fellowships and grants:
Fulbright Grant, University of Paris, 1953-54
University Fellowship, Columbia University, 1957-59
Samuel S. Fels Fellowship, Columbia University, 1960-61
NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1984-85
Honors:
Listed in Who’s Who in America, 1978—
Elected a member of the Académie de Vaucluse in Avignon, France, December 5, 1984
Awarded the Médaille des Amis d’Orange in Orange, France, February 10, 1985
Named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters), February
21,1997, by the French Minister of Culture
Honored by three sessions and a banquet at the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, University
of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2011
Named to the Bridgton Academy Hall of Fame, September 28, 2012
Given the Distinguished Alumna Award for 2013 at Colby College, June 8, 2013
Courses taught at Cornell:
Masterworks of Western literature
Introduction to French literature
French literature in translation
Survey of medieval French literature
History of the French language
Medieval French phonology,
Seminars on Old Picard, Chrétien de Troyes, the Roman de la Rose, courtly lyric, François Villon, the miracle
play, the Old French epic, the Vulgate Cycle of Arthurian romances, and the lyric poetry of the troubadours
Theses completed under my direction:
MA:
E. Maynard, 1964
N. Hequembourg, 1965
V. Polich, 1965
R. Mayberry, 1967
A. Carney, 1992
PhD:
G. Brogyanyi (Comparative Literature), 1969
E. Weinraub, 1970
D. Fein, 1976
K. McMahon, 1976
D. Hult, 1977
M. Brockett (Medieval Studies), 1978
G. McCary (Germanic Studies), 1978
J. Shoaf, 1978
S. Randall, 1980
J. Siskin, 1981
P. Black, 1985
S. Farrier (Medieval Studies), 1985
F. Regina Psaki (Medieval Studies) 1989
N. Clifton (Medieval Studies), 1993
R. Henry, 2008
Professional activities:
Modern Language Association of America (MLA):
Executive Committee of French 1 (Medieval French Literature and Language), 1972-77, 1985-89, Program
Chair, 1973, 1988, Chair, 1976, 1988
Delegate Assembly, Regional Delegate, 1977-79
Program Chair for the Société Rencesvals meeting, 1979, 1986, 1993
Medieval Academy of America:
Member of the Editorial Board of Speculum, the journal of the Academy, 1976-79
Nominating Committee, 1976-77
Councillor of the Medieval Academy, 1983-86
Haskins Medal Committee, 1983-86, Chair, 1985-86
Société Rencesvals (the international Romance epic society):
Member of the Editorial Board of Olifant, 1974Vice-President of the American-Canadian Branch, 1982-85,
President, 1986-88
Member of the Executive Council, 1989-91
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH):
Panelist for the evaluation of independent fellowship applications in French and Italian, 1980
International congresses on medieval studies, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI:
Participation in many workshops to help students and faculty pronounce medieval French texts
Participation in a roundtable discussion of the pronunciation of Old Occitan, May 14, 2011
Papers read:
Response to “Why is the Grail Knight Jewish?”, by Leslie Fiedler, Eighth Annual Conference of the Center for
Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, SUNY Binghamton, May 5, 1974
“Stylistic Ritual and Aesthetic Distance in the Bel Inconnu of Renaut de Beaujeu,” annual meeting of the Modern
Language Association of America, New York City, December 29, 1976
“Le substrat arlésien de la Prise d’Orange,” Eighth International Congress of the Société Rencesvals, Pamplona,
Spain, August 17, 1978. An English version of this paper was presented to the Cornell Research Club on
November 8, 1978, and to Quodlibet on November 9, 1978.
“In Defense of Andrea da Barberino: The Prise d’Orange of the Nerbonesi,” 33rd Annual Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 25, 1980
“Orange et Arles: un royaume pour deux Guillaumes,” read at a regular meeting of the Amis d’Orange in Orange, France, on October 18, 1980. An English version of this paper was presented to the Cornell Research Club on December 10, 1980
“In Search of the Lost Epics of the Lower Rhône Valley,” 17th International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7, 1982
“La géographie rhodanienne des Nerbonesi: réalisme artificiel ou signe d’authenticité?”, Ninth International
Congress of the Société Rencesvals, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, September 3, 1982
“Geography and Epic Tradition in Aliscans,” annual meeting of the Modern Language Association of America,
Los Angeles, December 28, 1982
“From curb niés to cor nier: The Linguistic Metamorphoses of William’s Epic Nose,” Tenth LACUS Forum, Laval
University, Quebec, August 10, 1983 (LACUS = Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States)
“The Migration and Metamorphoses of William’s Epic Nose,” presented to Quodlibet at Cornell on November
17, 1983
“Du nouveau sur Guillaume au Cornet, premier prince d’Orange,” meeting of the Amis d’Orange in Orange,
France, November 17, 1984
“Du nouveau sur Guillaume au Cornet, prince d’Orange,” meeting of the Académie de Vaucluse in Avignon,
France, February 6, 1985. Résumé published in the Bulletin mensuel de l’Académie de Vaucluse, No. 168
(March, 1985), pp. [3-4].
“William of Orange in the Canso de la Crosada,” 20th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10, 1985
“L’héraldique au service de la linguistique: le cas du cor nier de Guillaume,” Tenth International Congress of the
Société Rencesvals, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, August 26, 1985
“The Rôle of the Albigensian Crusade in the Demise of the Occitan Epic,” presented to the Cornell Research
Club, November 7, 1985, and to Quodlibet at Cornell, November 13, 1985
“New Links between William Shortnose, St. William of Gellone, and the City of Orange,” annual meeting of the
Medieval Academy of America, Toronto, April 25, 1987
“Epic Traditions in the Land of the Troubadours,” plenary session address at the Thirteenth Annual Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, September 19, 1987
“Of Cows, Horns, and Hearts: William of Orange and Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne,” 27th International Congress
on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7, 1992
“William’s Gloriette: Epic Tradition and Architectural Reality,” annual meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, Toronto, December 28, 1993
“When Epic Meets Romance: Knights and Maidens in Foucon de Candie,” 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 6, 1999
“Charlemagne in Arles: An Occitan Epic Tradition,” 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 4, 2000
“Teaching the Roland as Oral Poetry: Phonetics and Metrics,” 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 4, 2001
“Guillaume d’Orange et la vache pie de Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne: histoire d’un fief de l’abbaye de Gellone,”
Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, France, October 17, 2004.
“Guillaume d’Orange et Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne: de l’histoire à la légende.” Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne, France,
October 23, 2004.
“Local Epic Legends in the Charroi de Nîmes,” annual meeting of the Modern Language Association of America,
Philadelphia, December 28, 2004.
“Le palais de Gloriette à Orange: mythe et réalité,” international colloquium on the principality of Orange, University of Avignon, France, June 17, 2005.
“Gloriette, le palais de Guillaume au Court Nez à Orange: mythe et réalité,” meeting of the Amis d’Orange,
Orange, France, June 18, 2005 (résumé published in the Bulletin des Amis d’Orange, 47, No. 164 (2006),
pp. 11-12.
“The Role of Orange, Arles, Barcelona, and Bordeaux in the Formation of the William Cycle,” annual meeting
of the Modern Language Association of America, Washington, D.C., December 30, 2005.
“Sound, Rhythm, and Sense in Roland’s Farewell to his Sword,” roundtable entitled Approaches to Teaching the
Song of Roland, annual meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, Philadelphia, December 29, 2006.
“The Enthroned Corpse of Charlemagne in Literature and Legend,” the Vicious Circle, Cornell University, February 18, 2009.
“Theatrical Entombment in the Franco-Italian Mort Charlemagne,” 44th International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michiugan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7, 2009
Lecture on a bilingual farsed epistle for St. Stephen’s Day in collaboration with a singer, Antoni Rossell, Les
Journées historiques et musicales: musiques en Méditerranée au Moyen-Âge, at the Abbey of SaintGuilhem-le-Désert, France, June 27, 2009
“Coherence and Continuity: Andrea da Barberino’s Adaptation of the William of Orange Cycle,” 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 14, 2010
“History, Legend, and Falsification in the Vita sancti Willelmi,” 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 15, 2015 (read by another scholar since I was
unable to attend)
Publications:
Book (published under the name Alice M. Colby):
The Portrait in Twelfth-Century French Literature: An Example of the Stylistic Originality of Chrétien de Troyes.
Geneva: Droz, 1965. Pp. 205
Book (published under the name Alice M. Colby-Hall):
“Vita sancti Willelmi,” fondateur de l’abbaye de Gellone, éd. et trad. Alice M. Colby-Hall d’après le manuscrit de
l’abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Cahiers d’Arts et Traditions Rurales : supplément, Montpellier:
Éditions Arts et Traditions Rurales, 2014. Pp. 129
Articles:
Contribution to “Disputatio.” In Aspects of Jewish Culture in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Eighth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. 3-5 May 1974. Ed. Paul E. Szarmach.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1979, pp. 186-88 (response to “Why is the Grail Knight
Jewish?” by Leslie Fiedler; published under the name Alice M. Colby)
“The Lips of the Serpent in the Bel Inconnu.” In Studia Gratulatoria: Homenaje a Robert A. Hall, Jr. Ed. David
Feldman. Madrid: Editorial Playor, 1977 (actually appeared in 1979), pp. 111-115 (published under the
name Alice M. Colby)
“Orange et Arles: un royaume pour deux Guillaumes.” Bulletin des Amis d’Orange, 22, No. 83 (1981), 13-19
“Le substrat arlésien de la Prise d’Orange.” In VIII Congreso de la Société Rencesvals. Pamplona: Institución Príncipe de Viana, 1981, pp. 83-86
“In Search of the Lost Epics of the Lower Rhône Valley.” Olifant, 8 (1980/81, appeared in 1983), 339-51. Reprinted in Romance Epic. Ed. Hans-Erich Keller. Studies in Medieval Culture, 24. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval
Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1987, pp. 115-27
“La géographie rhodanienne des Nerbonesi: réalisme artificiel ou signe d’authenticité?” In Essor et fortune de
la chanson de geste dans l’Europe et l’Orient latin: Actes du IXe Congrès International de la Société Rencesvals pour l’Étude des Épopées Romanes, Padoue-Venise, 29 août-4 septembre 1982. Modena: Mucchi,
1984, II, 655-62 (résumé in Olifant, 8 [1980/81, appeared in 1983], 420)
“Frustration and Fulfillment: The Double Ending of the Bel Inconnu.” Yale French Studies, 67 (1984), 120-34
“From curb niés to cor nier: The Linguistic Metamorphoses of William’s Epic Nose.” In The Tenth LACUS Forum
1983. Ed. Alan Manning, Pierre Martin, and Kim McCalla. Columbia, SC: Hornbeam Press, 1984, pp.
505-15
“Du nouveau sur le cornet de Guillaume au Court Nez.” Bulletin des Amis d’Orange, 26, No. 100 (1985), 6-25
“William of Orange in the Canso de la Crosada.” In Magister Regis: Studies in Honor of Robert Earl Kaske. Ed.
Arthur Groos et al. New York: Fordham University Press, 1986, pp. 139-46
“L’héraldique au service de la linguistique: le cas du cor nier de Guillaume.” In Au carrefour des routes d’Europe:
la chanson de geste (Xe Congrès international de la Société Rencesvals pour l’Étude des Épopées Romanes,
Strasbourg, 1985). Senefiance, Nos. 20-21. Aix-en-Provence: Publications du CUER MA, Université de
Provence, 1987, I, 383-97
“Saint Guillaume de Gellone et saint Bénézet: le témoignage de Gervais de Tilbury.” Mémoires de l’Académie de
Vaucluse, 7th series, 7 (1986-87), 61-70
“Epic Traditions in the Land of the Troubadours.” Medieval Perspectives, 3, No. 1 (1988), 1-26
“Le voyage d’un Orangeois, Jacques de la Pise, à l’abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, en 1573.” Études sur
l’Hérault, N.S., 5-6 (1989-90), 93-98
“Guillaume d’Orange sur un nouveau sceau médiéval de l’abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert.” Olifant, 15
(1990), 3-13 + 2 plates
“Guillaume au Court Nez et les premiers historiens d’Orange.” In Studies in Honor of Hans-Erich Keller: Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Romance Linguistics. Ed. Rupert Pickens. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993, pp. 151-64
“Guillaume d’Orange, l’abbaye de Gellone et la vache pie de Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.” Études sur l’Hérault,
N.S., 9 (1993), 5-21
“Nouvelles remarques sur le sceau conventuel de Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert.” Études héraultaises, 30-31-32
(1999-2000-2001), 27-29
“L’abbaye de Gellone (Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Hérault), Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne (Vaucluse) et les prieurés
de Saint-Didier et Saint-Marcellin (Valernes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence): histoire d’un échange de fiefs
au XIVe siècle.” Études héraultaises, 35 (2004-2005), 63-67
“La disparition d’une légende épique en Provence: Guillaume d’Orange et Gloriette.” Li letro de Font-Segugno:
revue culturelle bilingue des Amis de Font-Ségugne, No. 6 (2005), 13-15
“Guillaume d’Orange et Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.” Li letro de Font-Segugno: revue culturelle bilingue des Amis
de Font-Ségugne, No. 8 (2006), 6-18
“Teaching the Song of Roland as Oral Poetry: Phonetics and Metrics.” In Approaches to Teaching the Song of Roland, ed. William W. Kibler and Leslie Zarker Morgan (New York: The Modern Language Association
of America, 2006), pp. 29 (score of musical example), 36 (notes to CD), 154-55 + CD (musical example
and reading of over 400 lines of the Roland in Old French)
“Chant grégorien et liturgie latine et occitane dans un manuscrit méconnu de l’abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-leDésert.” Études héraultaises, 37-38 (2007-2008), 23-28
“L’iconographie de saint Guillaume de Gellone à la chapelle de Santa Maria di Casaluce (province de Caserta,
près d’Aversa, Campanie).” Études héraultaises, 37-38 (2007-2008), 33-38 + color photos, 29-31
“Le palais de Gloriette à Orange: mythe et réalité.” Mémoires de l’Académie de Vaucluse, 9th series, 4 (2006 [appeared in 2008]) = La principauté d’Orange du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle, actes du colloque de l’Université d’Avignon et des pays de Vaucluse, dir. Claude-France Hollard and Françoise Moreil, pp. 29-38
“Note sur une reliure mutilée d’un missel médiéval de l’abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert.” Études héraultaises, 39 (2009), 41-43
“Nouvelles remarques sur les fresques guillaumiennes de l’église de Santa Maria di Casaluce (province de Caserta, près d’Aversa, Campanie).” Études héraultaises, 40 (2010), 27-32
“Guillaume d’Orange, Ysoré et Bernard des Fossés sur un chapiteau roman de la basilique Saint-Julien de Brioude.” Études héraultaises, 41 (2011), 29-32
“La guérite du théâtre antique et la datation du tableau représentant l’apothéose de saint Guillaume.” Bulletin des
Amis d’Orange, 52, No. 180 (2011), 1-3
“Continuity, Coherence, and Closure: Andrea da Barberino’s Adaptation of the William of Orange Cycle,”
scheduled to appear in a festschrift
“Charlemagne and William of Orange in the Vita sancti Willelmi and the Franco-Italian Mort Charlemagne,”
scheduled to appear in a festschrift
Reviews:
Les éléments descriptifs dans le roman d’aventure au XIIIe siècle, by Faith Lyons. Medium Ævum, 36 (1967), 76-79
Medieval Miscellany Presented to Eugène Vinaver by Pupils, Colleagues, and Friends, ed. F. Whitehead et al.
Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, 10 (1967), 65-67
Les mélancolies de Jean Dupin, ed. Lauri Lindgren. Romanic Review, 59 (1968), 214
Le style épique dans “Garin le Loherain,” by Anne Iker Gittleman. Speculum, 44 (1969), 134-35
Villehardouin: Epic Historian, by Jeanette M. A. Beer. Speculum, 45 (1970), 659
Aesthetic Distance in Chrétien de Troyes, by Peter Haidu. Speculum, 46 (1971), 514-17
Poetic Patterns in Rutebeuf, by Nancy Freeman Regalado. The French Review, 46 (1972/73), 1217-18
Préhistoire et protohistoire du “Roland” d’Oxford, by Paul Aebischer. Speculum, 50 (1975), 289-92
The Creation of the First Arthurian Romance: A Quest, by Claude Luttrell. Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, 20
(1977), 277-80
Étude sur “Gaydon,” chanson de geste du XIIIe siècle, by Jean Subrenat. Speculum, 53 (1978), 193-95
A Poet at the Fountain: Essays on the Narrative Verse of Guillaume de Machaut, by William Calin. MLN, 93
(1978), 765-67
A Medievalist in the Eighteenth Century: Le Grand d’Aussy and the Fabliaux ou Contes, by Geoffrey Wilson. The
Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S., 2 (1976, appeared in 1979), 149
The Poetics of “Translatio Studii” and “Conjointure”: Chrétien de Troyes’s “Cligés,” by Michelle A. Freeman. French
Forum, 5 (1980), 181-82
Structure and Sacring: The Systematic Kingdom in Chrétien’s “Erec et Énide,” by Donald Maddox. MLN, 95 (1980),
1120-22
Approaches to Medieval Romance, ed. Peter Haidu. Romance Philology, 34 (1980/81), *284-*291
The Craft of Chrétien de Troyes: An Essay on Narrative Art, by Norris J. Lacy. Speculum, 56 (1981), 625-26
La Bible de Jehan Malkaraume (Ms. Paris, Bibl. nat., f. fr. 903), ed. J. R. Smeets. Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale,
24 (1981), 312
Étude sur le “Merlin” de Robert de Boron, roman du XIIIe siècle, by Alexandre Micha. Romance Philology, 39
(1985/86), 258-61
Literature and Society in Medieval France: The Mirror and the Image, 1100-1500, by Lynette Muir. History of
European Ideas, 8 (1987), 747-48
La “Prise d’Orange” ou la parodie courtoise d’une épopée, by Claude Lachet. Olifant, 15 (1990), 185-88
La versione franco-italiana della “Bataille d’Aliscans”: Codex Marcianus fr. VIII [= 252], ed. Günter Holtus. Romance Philology, 44 (1990/91), 344-47
The Myth of Guillaume: Poetic Consciousness in the Guillaume d’Orange Cycle, by David Schenck. Romance Philology, 47 (1993/94), 133-37
The Noble Merchant: Problems of Genre and Lineage in “Hervis de Mes,” by Catherine M. Jones. Speculum, 70
(1995), 158-60
Les enfances Vivien, ed. Magali Rouquier. Speculum, 74 (1999), 486
L’anthroponymie. Document de l’histoire sociale des mondes méditerranéens médiévaux. Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française de Rome avec le concours du GDR 955 du C.N.R.S. “Genèse médiévale
de l’anthroponymie moderne” (Rome, 6-8 octobre 1994), ed. Monique Bourin, Jean-Marie Martin, and
François Menant. Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, 11
(1998), 184-85
Introducción al teatre latino medieval: Textos y publicos, by Eva Castro Caridad. Mediaevistik: Internationale
Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, 12 (1999), 362.
Carnaval héroïque et écriture cyclique dans la geste de Guillaume d’Orange, by Philip E. Bennett. Speculum, 83
(2008), 954-56.
Work in progress:
A book in French on William of Orange and the epic legends of the lower Rhône valley
Research interests:
Old French and Old Occitan (Old Provençal) language and literature; stylistics